Photos of members of the Westfall family of Lewis County, West Virginia - descendants of John H. Westfall

Peter
Westfall in his later years with his lap robe made of white wolf
fur

Peter
Westfall family. Peter was the son of John H. and Elizabeth
Allman Westfall and half-brother of Nathaniel Jonathan Westfall. The young boy is Isaac Simpson Westfall, sitting in Peter's lap is Ada and standing next to Peter is Ida Westfall. Ada was accidentally killed when a neighbor boy was playing with a .22 caliber rifle. She is buried near her father and siblings in the Harrison Grove Cemetery in Lewis County.

Lydia Wilson Smith Westfall,
mother of Nathaniel J. Westfall, grandmother of Osa Westfall Corbett.
This picture was probably taken not long before her death in 1907. She is buried next to daughter Lydia (Westfall) Markley in the Harrison Grove Cemetery in Lewis County, WV.
Some years ago her headstone was carried off by vandals and never found.

Lydia was the daughter of George Wilson. She first married Solomon P. Smith with whom she had four sons, William McKindra "Uncle Kin", Thomas, David M. and Solomon E. Smith and one daughter, Mary Elsy Smith. After Solomon died she married my great-great grandfather John H. Westfall in April 1857 in Lewis Co., Virginia. Her children by John were my great grandfather Nathaniel Jonathan, Lydia Ann (Markly) and Nancy E. Westfall.

Half brother to Nathaniel J.
Westfall, Private William M. Smith, Company H, 7th Regiment, West
Virginia Cavalry 1863-1865; enrolled in Company H, 8th Regiment
of Virginia Mounted Infantry (USA) at Buckhannon on March 25, 1863
and mustered in at Bridgeport on June 16, 1863 for three years.
His unit was renamed to the 7th West Virginia Cavalry in January or
February 1864. From April to October 1863 he was on detached
service with Battery G, 1st and 2nd Regiment of Virginia Light Artillery.
Described as 5' 10 3/4", complexion "florid" eyes gray,
hair light, born Lewis County, occupation farmer; mustered out of
service on August 1, 1865 at Charleston, West Virginia.

William McKindra Smith (far
left) and three of his sons , Harvey, Grant and Bailey at the Cove Lick pump station in the Copley
Oil Field, Lewis County, West Virginia. William was the half brother
of Nathaniel J. Westfall

15 year old Osa B. Westfall (my grandmother) and her Jersey cow, Lewis Co., W.Va. shortly before the family moved to Summit Co., Ohio

I was told that this is Fayhma
Westfall and a Taylor cousin (daughter of Peggy Taylor, 3rd wife
of Peter Westfall)

Grave stone for Edward Dixon
Westfall in Elmendorf, Texas. It has a plaque commemorating him as
a citizen of the Republic of Texas, 1836-1846. It is engraved,
" In Loving Rememberence of my loving husband Edward Dixon Westfall
born in Vincennes, Nox [Knox] County, Indiana Dec. 22, 1820 Died June
12, 1897"

Adults standing in the rear
(left to right) Clara Donath (my mother and daughter of Osa Westfall
Corbett), George R. Westfall, son of Loy M. Westfall, Osa Westfall
Corbett (my grandmother); seated is Aunt Nina Westfall; I do not
know the names or relationship of the children; Medina County, Ohio,
1970s

Cove Lick Road appoximately two miles north of Copley
in Lewis County, West Virginia. This is the approximate area
where William McKindra "Uncle Kin" and
Thomas G. Smith half brothers of my great grandfather Nathaniel Westfall settled soon after Nathaniel married Luvenia Trowbridge
in 1880. The Smith brothers had 40 acres on each side of Nathaniel's
40 acres.

Standing at the intersection of West Fall Hollow
Road, and extension of Wolf Pen Road at the intersection of Murphy's Creek Road (note the miss spelling of Westfall).
(April 17, 2008)

My grandson Daniel with me at Westfall Hollow Road off Murphy's Creek Road and Wolf Pen Road, Lewis County, West Virginia.. This location
was once known as Edmiston and was the location of Peter Westfall's
homestead. Peter was my great grandfather Nathaniel J. Westfall's
half brother.
This spot is a mile or two south of the Harrison Grove Cemetery on
Murphy's Creek Road where Peter, Nathaniel and other family members
are buried in Lewis County, West Virginia.
(April 17, 2008)